Storied Objects: Gil Rocha at Galveston Arts Center
The objects in Gil Rocha’s work—beer cans, hand-painted signs, plastic bags, sun-faded photographs—arrive with their own stories.
MICHAEL MCFADDEN
Dreams Walking in Broad Daylight: Sandy Skoglund at the McNay Art Museum
Dreams often bend the ordinary into the uncanny: cats glow, fish take flight, trees grow restless and run.
City in the Sky: Gyula Kosice at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
A city floats a mile above the earth. Transparent modules glint with water vapor, neon pulses like a heartbeat, and the promise of a different kind of life hums in the air. This is The Hydrospatial City, the centerpiece of Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic, on view Oct. 26-Jan. 25, 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Nothing is Ordinary: Hillerbrand+Magsamen at FotoFest
There is a certain charge that comes when artists insist that the stuff of daily life, its toys, its rituals, its messes, belongs on the same stage as monuments and masterpieces.
Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space
In Timothy Harding’s paintings, there’s a kind of friction at play, a low hum between precision and improvisation, between gesture and grid, between what is seen and what is suggested.
Caught in Motion: Robert Rauschenberg at the Menil
A curtain lifts. A dancer moves across the stage, costume fluttering around graceful limbs.
Value in Hu(e)manity: Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe
This is how Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, on view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through March 29, 2026, begins—or how it continues.
Accumulating Histories: Francesca Fuchs Redefines a Breathing Archive at the Menil
In the attic of memory, objects slip out of time: A letter filed away, a photograph without a name, a clay koala bear made by a child and placed on a shelf.
A Blurred Utopia: Town Meeting 1978-2028 by Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
In 1978, around 4,000 LGBTQIA+ Houstonians convened at the Astro Arena.
Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads
“I think about how a traditional painting is compressed unto itself,” Nathaniel Donnett explained. “The object, ground, surface, texture, subject or non-subject, and the process of applying a substance that could be considered as paint.”
Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH
When an artist allows it, their practice can become all-encompassing, blurring the lines between practice, spirit, and the world around them.
Abstraction, Power, and Self: Joe Overstreet at the MENIL
People often consider abstraction to be the absence of content, the erasure of reference.